TMA: Women Have Right to Know the Facts

The Woman's Right to Know booklet that Texas law requires physicians to give to all patients considering an elective abortion is factually inaccurate and not science-based, the chair of TMA's Maternal and Perinatal Health Committee wrote to state public health officials.

"When it comes to abortion, our policy supports informed and nonjudgmental counseling between the patient and the physician," Yasser Zeid, MD, wrote in formal comments on proposed state rules for how to revise the Woman's Right to Know materials. "Unfortunately, the existing materials do not reflect these principles."

The TMA letter called for "a more rigorous approach to reviewing these materials to help ensure that language is rooted in science and evidence-based clinical literature."

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I agree with Dr Luedecke. But I'm trying to think of cases where liberals deny, manipulate, or ignore altogether valid results of scientific inquiry in favor of a specific religious or political agenda. Creationists, anti-abortionists, and global warming deniers all seem to be conservative and or religious. The Bush administration was notorious for politicizing science. Clinton was adamant about basing policy on science rather than theology. Can anybody help me out here?

It is very important that physicians speak up loudly when anyone tries to promote medically inaccurate or non-scientific information, especially if it is our government doing it, irregardless of which political party is trying to do it.